Usually means: Secondary, incidental effect; not causal.
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  1. epiphenomenal: Merriam-Webster
  2. epiphenomenal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. epiphenomenal: Collins English Dictionary
  4. epiphenomenal: Wordnik
  5. epiphenomenal: Wiktionary
  6. epiphenomenal: Dictionary.com
  7. Epiphenomenal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. epiphenomenal: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. epiphenomenal: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (epiphenomenal)

adjective:  Being of secondary consequence to a causal chain of processes, but playing no causal role in the process of interest.
adjective:  (philosophy, psychology) Of or pertaining to a mental process that occurs only as an incidental effect of electrical or chemical activity in the brain or nervous system.

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